Wick-trimmer



(No Model.)

V. MORGAN.

l WICK TRIMMBR.

No. 465,384. Patented Dec. l5, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VANSANDT MORGAN, OF WINAMAC, INDIANA.

VVICK-TRIMMER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,384, dated December15, 1891.

I Application filed August '7, 1891. Serial No. 402,002.` (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, VANSANDT MORGAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Wi u amac, in the county of Pulaski and State of Indiana,have invented a new and useful Wick- Triminer, of which the following isa specication.

This invention relates to wick-trimmers, and has for its object tocombine With an ordinary pair of scissors a Wick-trimming device whichwill trim the wick in such a manner as to spread the light to theY rightand `left as Well as to throw the same into a compact llame, which willgive more light from the wick than from the wicks trimmed in theordinary manner; and to this end the invention consists in providing apair of scissors intermediate of the point of pivot and the thumb andfinger holes With corrugated cutting-edges arranged and constructed inthe mannerhereinafter morefullydescribed,illus trated, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is au edge -view of a pair ofwick-trimming scissors constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig.2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transversesection on the line @c a: of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of apair of scissors constructed in accordance with my invention.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A designates a pair' of scissorsconstructed in the usual manner and comprising the ordinary blades B,pivoted at C, and having the shank portions D extending beyond the pointof pivot and terminating in the usualthumb and fin ger holes E. Themeeting faces of the shanks D of the scissors intermediate of the pointof pivot and the operating-loops are provided With oppositely-corrugatedsurfaces F, which are corrugated ata slight angle in order to insure aneasy manipulation and so that the registering corrugations may slide andwork easily over each other. The outer faces of the Shanks D areoppositely beveled along one edge, as at G, to form cutting-edges,which, as the same come together, cut the wick and cause the same to betrimmed in a wavy andundulatingline. As said, by trimming the Wick inthis manner the light is spread to the right and left and throws theflame doWn into a compact body, Which emanates an increased light area.

Having thus described my invention, What` I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

In a Wick-trimmer, the blades provided with Y

